Piccadilly Traditional Cache
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''Piccadilly'' is a major London street. The name arises from a tailor named Robert Baker, who owned a shop on The Strand, in the late 16th century and early 17th century. He amassed a large fortune by making and selling picadils (stiff collars with scalloped edges and a broad laced or perforated border), that were then in fashion. With his great fortune he purchased a large tract of what was then open country to the west of London and in about 1612 he built a large house there. The mansion soon became known as the Piccadilly Hall.
After the Restoration of the English monarchy in 1660, Piccadilly and the area to the north (Mayfair) began to be systematically developed as a fashionable residential locality. Some of the grandest mansions in London were built on the northern side of Piccadilly. By the 1920s most of these buildings had been demolished or were in institutional use.
21st century Piccadilly has a hybrid range of uses. Despite the presence of two or three famous shops it is not really one of London's principal shopping streets. The Ritz Hotel is in the street, along with some other luxury hotels. There are also some offices and some very expensive flats. However Piccadilly's appeal is compromised by being one of the widest and straightest in central London, and hence having some of the most overbearing traffic.
You won’t be needing to wear your picadils to find this cache.
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